Guys... Im building a new home and of course one of my projects is the garage....

What did you use to waterproof your walls? I will be washing the cars in the garage so a section of the walls will need waterproofing.

Any ideas?

 

First off what material are the walls made up of?

 

just standard 5/8 drywall....

 

Read this....

http://www.askthebuilder.com/printer...ocations.shtml

Then check out...

http://www.seal-krete.com/forwalls.htm

If your plan is to use your garage as a car wash stall I would not drench your walls. Doing these two steps should help with water mist/splash. If you expect the walls to get real wet then you need to do the following. Also use a rubber base.

If I were doing this for my garage I would use green board, seal it with Seal Krete and then I would use either roll vinyl/Lynoleum 4' high or so along the wall. Or you could use the 12" or 18" tiles to accomplish the same thing. Either way you need to create a barrier from the water.

 

Thanks....

Any good leads for garage tiles?

 

You can also apply FRP panels to the walls. Colors are limited but the protection is excelent along with great impact resistance.

 

Depending on the look you want the garage to have you could also use stone of some sort or red bricks on the inside of the walls that could potentially become soaked

Rob